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I'm surprised no one has talked about atypical reproduction strategies. If someone was the type of person who would like to clone themselves, and they did it 5

I'm surprised no one has talked about atypical reproduction strategies. If someone was the type of person who would like to clone themselves, and they did it 50 times, their kids may be that type of person too (and there would be selection for clone-parents who educate kids to continue the tradition). This would be a locally adaptive behavior, and would end population decline.

tete 12y ago
I don't think that would have influence. If you wanted to have many children, there are easier and especially cheaper ways. The majority of world population wouldn't be able to afford it, even if it got really cheap, like 100USD per clone, only a small percentage of the population could afford it to really have 50 clones, even if it became a trend that would not have a huge effect. A person can already decide to have more than 10 children in most cases, basically for free, potentially even with monetary benefits (Canada, Europe, ...). Just have the next big pop star talk about how great it is to have many children and how everybody should do the same. Or lets have a big debate about the awful effects of overpopulation.
- CodeCube 12y ago
  > If you wanted to have many children, there are easier and especially cheaper ways. And surely, more fun ;) When you're poor, that's about the easiest thing you can do to help pass the time ... which is why there's all this evidence of increasing wealth/women's rights results in fewer births.
- monkeypizza 12y ago
  The thing you're ignoring is that the easier and cheaper ways involve two people; and the trend among educated individuals in the US is that those people aren't tending to agree to have more children. Cloning or alternative strategies leave it up to just one person - so no agreement or negotiation is necessary.

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I'm surprised no one has talked about atypical reproduction strategies. If someone was the type of person who would like to clone themselves, and they did it 5

by monkeypizza 12y ago

tete 12y ago
I don't think that would have influence. If you wanted to have many children, there are easier and especially cheaper ways. The majority of world population wouldn't be able to afford it, even if it got really cheap, like 100USD per clone, only a small percentage of the population could afford it to really have 50 clones, even if it became a trend that would not have a huge effect. A person can already decide to have more than 10 children in most cases, basically for free, potentially even with monetary benefits (Canada, Europe, ...). Just have the next big pop star talk about how great it is to have many children and how everybody should do the same. Or lets have a big debate about the awful effects of overpopulation.
- CodeCube 12y ago
  > If you wanted to have many children, there are easier and especially cheaper ways. And surely, more fun ;) When you're poor, that's about the easiest thing you can do to help pass the time ... which is why there's all this evidence of increasing wealth/women's rights results in fewer births.
- monkeypizza 12y ago
  The thing you're ignoring is that the easier and cheaper ways involve two people; and the trend among educated individuals in the US is that those people aren't tending to agree to have more children. Cloning or alternative strategies leave it up to just one person - so no agreement or negotiation is necessary.